With the 14th overall selection in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, the Pittsburgh Penguins select…

[The Old Master]

This team isn't going to be bad enough to bottom out for at least 2-3 years.

They are structured contract wise to be a competitive team. Makes way more sense to deal the 1st for a 22-24 year old player you hope can pop and then move again for assets when Malkin's contract is done and Sid is retiring.

isn't that what we are supposed to be doing since our last cup? how has that worked out?

 

[Pancakes]

isn't that what we are supposed to be doing for the last bunch of years? how has that worked out?

Doesn't work when you trade the first for garbage, yeah. That's not necessarily an argument against moving the first. It's an argument against moving the first for garbage.

 

[Gurglesons]

isn't that what we are supposed to be doing since our last cup? how has that worked out?

We’ve largely made the playoffs ever year and been a competitive team. That’s what most teams with a core in our age group do.

 

[The Old Master]

We’ve largely made the playoffs ever year and been a competitive team. That’s what most teams with a core in our age group do.

we may have continued to make the playoffs , but team wise we just got older and not better. till now we are just older and with nothing coming up. and not making the playoffs
edit; i want us to be better than most teams

 

[The Old Master]

Wonder what it would take to move up to get Will Smith?

the players from what i can tell are not very far apart. Outside of the top 4 or 5 so unless we want to move up that far your best bet would be win the lotto. it shouldn't cost that much to move up in the next group but if you're a team and you really like a player are you going to take a chance and trade down and maybe miss your guy? imo

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Alright, here's the plan. Everybody ahead of the Pens passes on Michkov because they're f***ing dumb. The Pens miraculously land the kid. He goes to play some tourney in Finland or something and he manages to get a hold of his passport, which will obviously be kept by a Russian team official. He disappears for a few days before suddenly popping up in LA training at a rink. He tumbles over Carter and separates his shoulder in a pre-season game before going on to be one of the top 10-15 players ever to play the sport.

ezpz

 

[Pancakes]

Alright, here's the plan. Everybody ahead of the Pens passes on Michkov because they're f***ing dumb. The Pens miraculously land the kid. He goes to play some tourney in Finland or something and he manages to get a hold of his passport, which will obviously be kept by a Russian team official. He disappears for a few days before suddenly popping up in LA training at a rink. He tumbles over Carter and separates his shoulder in a pre-season game before going on to be one of the top 10-15 players ever to play the sport.

ezpz

Alternative plans:

1) Uncle Gary rigs it for us tomorrow and we pick 4th, thus being able to secure either Carlsson or Michkov depending on how the draft goes

2) Michkov pulls a Jagr and tells every team that wants to draft him that he will only come over to play for the Pens. Jagr literally did this and it was part of the reason we got him at #5 lol

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Alternative plans:

1) Uncle Gary rigs it for us tomorrow and we pick 4th, thus being able to secure either Carlsson or Mitchkov depending on how the draft goes

2) Mitchkov pulls a Jagr and tells every team that wants to draft him that he will only come over to play for the Pens. Jagr literally did this and it was part of the reason we got him at #5 lol

Just give me Michkov. Dude's gonna be Kaprizov or better imo.

 

[Pancakes]

Just give me Michkov. Dude's gonna be Kaprizov or better imo.

I think what intrigues about Michkov is he won't come over for a few years anyways, and that perfectly suits our timeline since by the time he comes over he'll be the centerpiece of the rebuild.

I do wonder if someone like Chicago won't just take him even if we win the lottery though. If you're Chicago and you don't get to pick first, why not take Michkov? Chicago is gonna be god awful next year, so might as well just tank again and get Celebrini and then you have Celebrini and Michkov in a few years. That'd be my plan.

 

[Andy99]

Pens under Sullivan ain’t gonna pick no super skilled Russian player lol… he doesn’t PK, he’ll try too many fancy east-west passes, and he can’t pronounce the word “sticktoittiveness”

 

[Pens x]

that would simply be a trap for us to step into. making us even worse than we are. take the guy with the most upside and hang on for dear life. (Unless there is a massive over pay) refusing to take a step back so you can leap forward is what put us in the mess we are at in the first place. if we would have kept those high picks those players would be being funneled in as we speak. or traded our older players for something, rather than letting them walk. even if was just for picks we would be soooo much better off.

You assume we wouldn’t have drafted turd players.

Sam Poulin says heyyyy with his giant lips.

 

[Pens1566]

No that’s Will Smith.

Well, at least we'll have someone that can scrap again.

 

[Andy99]

Who’s going to use AI and spend the next 8 hours generating draft lottery simulations, so we can find out how many times we “win” the lottery?

 

[The Old Master]

Who’s going to use AI and spend the next 8 hours generating draft lottery simulations, so we can find out how many times we “win” the lottery?

only need to win it once.

 

[Andy99]

only need to win it once.

Yes lol…but the odds are not real good…maybe in all simulations we don’t even win it once…

 

[Pancakes]

Who’s going to use AI and spend the next 8 hours generating draft lottery simulations, so we can find out how many times we “win” the lottery?

I just simmed and the Pens won twice in my first like eight clicks lol.

 

[Andy99]

I just simmed and the Pens won twice in my first like eight clicks lol.

if only you were running the real draft lottery tonight!

 

[Pancakes]

if only you were running the real draft lottery tonight!

I'll leave that in Uncle Gary's capable hands.

 

[Andy99]

Ryan Wilson says he went into the Tankathon site and did 40-50 simulations and they only won once lol…

“I’ve been pretty transparent about wanting the Penguins to trade the 14th overall pick. Hitting on the 1.5% chance and moving up to 4th overall would obviously change the calculus. The odds of getting quality players in the NHL draft, even in round one, can be disappointingly low. Getting into the top five mitigates a lot of the risk the middle to lower picks have. It is a long shot, but there’s a path to where I would want the Penguins to actually use their first-round selection.

The overwhelming odds have the Penguins staying at 14th overall. I went to the Tankathon site and ran about 40 or 50 simulations and they were at 14th almost every time. There were two exceptions. I got the 4th overall pick once… but I also landed on another low probability outcome where the Penguins actually drop to 15th overall. This situation would take place if the Nashville Predators or Calgary Flames hit on their low odds and moved up ten spaces.”

 

[SomeDude]

Regardless of winning the lottery or not, future GM Kyle Dubas will be drafting the highest rank SOO Greyhound which looks to be D Andrew Gibson. So mentally prepare yourselves.

 

[Andy99]

Regardless of winning the lottery or not, future GM Kyle Dubas will be drafting the highest rank SOO Greyhound which looks to be D Andrew Gibson. So mentally prepare yourselves.

As long as he’s not bringing Matt Murray over with him…

 

[SomeDude]

As long as he’s not bringing Matt Murray over with him…

 

[SEALBound]

Ryan Wilson says he went into the Tankathon site and did 40-50 simulations and they only won once lol…

“I’ve been pretty transparent about wanting the Penguins to trade the 14th overall pick. Hitting on the 1.5% chance and moving up to 4th overall would obviously change the calculus. The odds of getting quality players in the NHL draft, even in round one, can be disappointingly low. Getting into the top five mitigates a lot of the risk the middle to lower picks have. It is a long shot, but there’s a path to where I would want the Penguins to actually use their first-round selection.

The overwhelming odds have the Penguins staying at 14th overall. I went to the Tankathon site and ran about 40 or 50 simulations and they were at 14th almost every time. There were two exceptions. I got the 4th overall pick once… but I also landed on another low probability outcome where the Penguins actually drop to 15th overall. This situation would take place if the Nashville Predators or Calgary Flames hit on their low odds and moved up ten spaces.”

Thanks for doing that, Ryan.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Who gives a shit about Ryan Wilson's opinion or the fact that he pressed a button a few times?

 

[Pancakes]

Who gives a shit about Ryan Wilson's opinion or the fact that he pressed a button a few times?

I pressed the button less times than Ryan Wilson and we won a lot more times